HOME AND FOREIGN.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLV, Issue 262, 21 December 1903, Page 3

HOME AND FOREIGN.

ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION, LONDON, Dec. 18. Bruce's Antarctic expedition baa reached latitude 70 degrees 25 winpites. Six of the crow were left to couttnlrt; researches. The Scotia will Return to the Antarctic. CUBAN TREATY. WASHINGTON, Dec. 18. President Roosevelt has signed the Cult)an reciprocity treaty. SUGAR TARIFF. WASHINGTON, Dec. 18. Britain has notified the United tSlalerf Government tiUat she expects to secure favoured-*m.tion treatment for West Indian sugar, which will be admitted ou the same terms as Cufctun. THE A LEX A X DRETTA INCIDENT. WASHINGTON, Dec. 18. An American warship takes Mr ®W"i«s, United States Consul, back to AlexaamU-etta. Reparation will be HdeumiiiteJ for -the recent uttack on Mr Dnvies by Turkisth sokHers. FIRE IN A SCHOOL. LONDON, Dec. 18. A fire occurred in a school containing a thousand children in Glasgow. AH were saved, 330 infants taring marched out during fcte playing oi R tune on the piano. A COWARDLY CREW. LONDON, Dec. 18. The captain and tec of tl!6 crew of the barque Francois Coppee, recently wrecked in To males Bay, were lost owing to nine otihers rowing ayra.y in the lifeboat. NEW BATTLESHIPS. LONDON, Dec. 18. The Aidmirftlty has christened the newly-acquired Chilian battleships Swiftsurc aid Triumph. They will be added to the fleet reserve, . THF COTTON CORNER. LONDON, Dec. 18. A movement h«ts been initiated in Tonrnrfii-rg |n fawAir <rf working abort time in the cotton tnode with .the Object gf *def©ft.tisig American gambling in cotton.

RUSSIAN STUDENTS' RIOTS. ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. IS. Student distnibances took place at Toniske, Kraeon, Kieff, and continue despite numerous arrests. Tbe students at Kieff tore down and trampled on tbe Czajr's portrait and Buiralituted ttmt of M. Sipiagjume, Minister for Finance, who was shot tiead by a student in April of last year.

THE PANAMA ISTHMUS. Dec. 20. Mr P. B. Loomes, assistant Secretary of Staite, speaking at New York, said that betd the Cototribten Senate's intention of rofat&ng the Panama: Company of forty million dollars been carried out France might attempt to seize and occupy tbe Isthmus.

GREEK POLITICS. Received 20, 9.25 a.m. ATHENS, Dec. 19.

A fipture qcciirred between M. Bttllie, Premier, and M. Delyaimis, with the result that M. Tbeokis becomes Premier and Minister of the Interior, Mauritania and Foreign Affairs, and M. Sinropones, for Finance.

RELIGIOUS TROUBLES IN FRANCE. ► Yteceived 20, 9.25 a.m. PARIS, Dec. 19. M. Combes has introduced' a Bill Jn the Chamber of Deputies protdbittag congregations from teaching expenditure bit TW mutton franca annually until completed at the end of five years.

UNFOUNDED ALLEGATIONS. ™ ..JfE* Y ORK. Dec. 18. The allegations that Mr Brucken a British M.P., and under We policy Mrs Ernest Terah the «*«* of u 1,6611 Ul-treated in a SL to TOtire, y

PUNISHING THE PRINTERS. ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 19. Six compositors were tried at W«»a aad banisbad for life for boto a secret ScwaaiistnrintJng office at Kfafctne*

AUSTRALIAN NEWS. ILLNESS OP MR O'SULLTVAN. Bweived 20, 9.34 a.m.

SYDNEY, Dec. 20. Minister for* Public Wtarka' is Jwcrmed, and is understood that Uwy were successful. »

THE WRECKED OVALAU. fleeeived 21, 1.6 afra ~ SYDNEY, Dec. 20. froT r^ ny *"* returned V >rd Howe Island. Tliev the Ovalau ted turned comply orer, a»«d was now lying bottom up. In oncfer to gvt at tho oarsoit »,11 be the bottom out of the vessel. SO MALI LAND. LONDON, Dec. 18. Commander Gaunt, of the Mohawk, who was injured in the attack on Fort Durbo. is progressing /avouraWy. His recovery is now assured.

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